meteor

From Middle French météore, from Old French, from Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron), from μετέωρος (metéōros, “raised from the ground, hanging, lofty”), from μετά (metá, “in the midst of, among, between”) (English meta) + ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, to heave, to raise up”).

The original sense of “atmospheric phenomenon” gave rise to meteorology, but the meaning of "meteor" is now restricted to extraterrestrial objects burning up as they enter the atmosphere.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmitiɚ/, [ˈmiɾiɚ]

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• Homophone: meatier

meteor (plural meteors)

1. A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star.
2. (archaic) Any atmospheric phenomenon. (Thus the derivation of meteorology.) These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars).
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     A meteor in the hazy air
     Play’d before his path;
     Before him now it roll’d
     A globe of livid fire; […]
     And now its wavy point
     Up-blazing rose, like a young cypress-tree
     Sway’d by the heavy wind;
     Anon to Thalaba it mov’d,
     And wrapt him in its pale innocuous fire

3. (juggling) A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
4. (martial arts) A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
5. (figuratively) Any short-lived source of wonderment.

• (streak of light in night sky): Not to be confused with meteoroid and meteorite (cause and remains of a meteor), or asteroid and comet (celestial bodies).

• p. 1859 December, Herman Melville, “The Portent (1859)”

  But the streaming beard is shown

  (Weird John Brown),

  The meteor of the war.

• (streak of light in night sky): falling star, shooting star, faxed star

• (astronomical phenomenon): asteroid, comet

meteor (third-person singular simple present meteors, present participle meteoring, simple past and past participle meteored)

1. (intransitive) To move at great speed.

• meteor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -ometer, emoter, ometer, remote

meteor m (plural meteors)

1. meteor

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛtɛor]

meteor m

1. meteor (fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere)

• létavice
• povětroň

• meteor in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• meteor in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From English meteor or German Meteor.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛtɛor]
• Hyphenation: me‧te‧or

meteor (plural meteorok)

1. (astronomy) meteor (a fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere)

From Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron)

meteor m (definite singular meteoren, indefinite plural meteorer, definite plural meteorene)

1. a meteor

• stjerneskudd, stjerneskott

• meteoritt

• “meteor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron)

meteor m (definite singular meteoren, indefinite plural meteorar, definite plural meteorane)

1. a meteor

• stjerneskot, stjerneskott

• meteoritt

• “meteor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈtɛ.ɔr/

meteor m inan

1. (astronomy) meteor

• meteor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /metěoːr/
• Hyphenation: me‧te‧or

metèōr m (Cyrillic spelling метѐо̄р)

1. (astronomy) meteor

meteor c

1. meteor

• meteorit

• meteorologi